Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan — NEW YORK—More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight Thursday outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy the new Motorola Droid. — About 65 eager shoppers lined the south side of West 34th Street across …

Fever Pitch: It's Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment. — If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those expectations are rarely satisfied once you have the special little device in hand, it's a moment to savor.

Retweet Limited Rollout — We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy.

Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets — Twitter's Trending Topics area is one of the easiest things to game on the web. Even when trends start out as real items, spammers often latch onto them with bogus tweets hoping to ride the wave and get some people seeing their spammy nonsense.

Woman to Broadcast Birth on Internet — Social Network for Mothers to Stream Live Video of Delivery — For many people, it's one of life's most intimate moments. But for a 23-year-old Minnesota teacher, the birth of her first child will be an event open to anyone in the world.

AT&T launching white BlackBerry 8900? — One of our connects just hit us up with this shot, and it would appear that RIM has a theme going on. Step 1: make successful handset in black, step 2: relaunch said handset in white. Almost a month after the vastly popular vanilla BlackBerry Bold hit the streets …

Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234% — It has been quite amazing to watch the global excitement build around Windows 7, especially during a tough economic climate. It was just a few short weeks ago that we learned about Windows 7 outselling the UK's “own” Harry Potter.

Adobe Photoshop Comes to Android — Just in time for today's big Verizon Droid releases, Adobe has announced the available of its mobile version of Photoshop.com for Google's Android. The app features simple image editing tools and photo-sharing features. — The app lets users crop, rotate, and color correct photos.

Leaked PDF Reveals Google Voice International Plans — Google Voice is arguably the US equivalent to Spotify. Nothing but good things have been spoken about the service and international Google fanatics are waiting enviously for the day Google announces international availability.

Splitting Up Search — Distributing a search engine's index around the world could make it faster and more efficient, researchers say. — Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search companies if search engines were split up and distributed around the world, according to researchers at Yahoo.

Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough — A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible. — A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market …

A new design for LinkedIn — Some of you may have noticed a new site navigation experience on LinkedIn. We are in the process of testing a new design. During this testing phase, some users will see the new design, while others will not. — What's New

Dell Mini 3iX passes the FCC, AT&T 3G included — Michael Dell has recently confirmed that his company would launch an Android smartphone in the US via AT&T in early 2010 - and it looks like that smartphone is exactly the Dell Mini 3iX that we saw a few days ago in Brazil.

NVIDIA Uses Cartoons to Harass Intel — The feud between two of the hardware's biggest players continues to be ugly — NVIDIA and Intel, two of the electronics industry's largest veteran powers, have never been too warm or close. Recently, the pair can't seem to stop stepping on each other's toes.